diff --git a/crypto/openssh/ssh_config.5 b/crypto/openssh/ssh_config.5 index 468b5025ae14..e8b52f309b50 100644 --- a/crypto/openssh/ssh_config.5 +++ b/crypto/openssh/ssh_config.5 @@ -1,1823 +1,1823 @@ .\" .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen , Espoo, Finland .\" All rights reserved .\" .\" As far as I am concerned, the code I have written for this software .\" can be used freely for any purpose. Any derived versions of this .\" software must be clearly marked as such, and if the derived work is .\" incompatible with the protocol description in the RFC file, it must be .\" called by a name other than "ssh" or "Secure Shell". .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1999,2000 Markus Friedl. All rights reserved. .\" Copyright (c) 1999 Aaron Campbell. All rights reserved. .\" Copyright (c) 1999 Theo de Raadt. 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The configuration files contain sections separated by .Cm Host specifications, and that section is only applied for hosts that match one of the patterns given in the specification. The matched host name is usually the one given on the command line (see the .Cm CanonicalizeHostname option for exceptions). .Pp Since the first obtained value for each parameter is used, more host-specific declarations should be given near the beginning of the file, and general defaults at the end. .Pp The file contains keyword-argument pairs, one per line. Lines starting with .Ql # and empty lines are interpreted as comments. Arguments may optionally be enclosed in double quotes .Pq \&" in order to represent arguments containing spaces. Configuration options may be separated by whitespace or optional whitespace and exactly one .Ql = ; the latter format is useful to avoid the need to quote whitespace when specifying configuration options using the .Nm ssh , .Nm scp , and .Nm sftp .Fl o option. .Pp The possible keywords and their meanings are as follows (note that keywords are case-insensitive and arguments are case-sensitive): .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Cm Host Restricts the following declarations (up to the next .Cm Host or .Cm Match keyword) to be only for those hosts that match one of the patterns given after the keyword. If more than one pattern is provided, they should be separated by whitespace. A single .Ql * as a pattern can be used to provide global defaults for all hosts. The host is usually the .Ar hostname argument given on the command line (see the .Cm CanonicalizeHostname keyword for exceptions). .Pp A pattern entry may be negated by prefixing it with an exclamation mark .Pq Sq !\& . If a negated entry is matched, then the .Cm Host entry is ignored, regardless of whether any other patterns on the line match. Negated matches are therefore useful to provide exceptions for wildcard matches. .Pp See .Sx PATTERNS for more information on patterns. .It Cm Match Restricts the following declarations (up to the next .Cm Host or .Cm Match keyword) to be used only when the conditions following the .Cm Match keyword are satisfied. Match conditions are specified using one or more criteria or the single token .Cm all which always matches. The available criteria keywords are: .Cm canonical , .Cm exec , .Cm host , .Cm originalhost , .Cm user , and .Cm localuser . The .Cm all criteria must appear alone or immediately after .Cm canonical . Other criteria may be combined arbitrarily. All criteria but .Cm all and .Cm canonical require an argument. Criteria may be negated by prepending an exclamation mark .Pq Sq !\& . .Pp The .Cm canonical keyword matches only when the configuration file is being re-parsed after hostname canonicalization (see the .Cm CanonicalizeHostname option.) This may be useful to specify conditions that work with canonical host names only. The .Cm exec keyword executes the specified command under the user's shell. If the command returns a zero exit status then the condition is considered true. Commands containing whitespace characters must be quoted. Arguments to .Cm exec accept the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. .Pp The other keywords' criteria must be single entries or comma-separated lists and may use the wildcard and negation operators described in the .Sx PATTERNS section. The criteria for the .Cm host keyword are matched against the target hostname, after any substitution by the .Cm Hostname or .Cm CanonicalizeHostname options. The .Cm originalhost keyword matches against the hostname as it was specified on the command-line. The .Cm user keyword matches against the target username on the remote host. The .Cm localuser keyword matches against the name of the local user running .Xr ssh 1 (this keyword may be useful in system-wide .Nm files). .It Cm AddKeysToAgent Specifies whether keys should be automatically added to a running .Xr ssh-agent 1 . If this option is set to .Cm yes and a key is loaded from a file, the key and its passphrase are added to the agent with the default lifetime, as if by .Xr ssh-add 1 . If this option is set to .Cm ask , .Xr ssh 1 will require confirmation using the .Ev SSH_ASKPASS program before adding a key (see .Xr ssh-add 1 for details). If this option is set to .Cm confirm , each use of the key must be confirmed, as if the .Fl c option was specified to .Xr ssh-add 1 . If this option is set to .Cm no , no keys are added to the agent. The argument must be .Cm yes , .Cm confirm , .Cm ask , or .Cm no (the default). .It Cm AddressFamily Specifies which address family to use when connecting. Valid arguments are .Cm any (the default), .Cm inet (use IPv4 only), or .Cm inet6 (use IPv6 only). .It Cm BatchMode If set to .Cm yes , passphrase/password querying will be disabled. This option is useful in scripts and other batch jobs where no user is present to supply the password. The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). .It Cm BindAddress Use the specified address on the local machine as the source address of the connection. Only useful on systems with more than one address. .It Cm BindInterface Use the address of the specified interface on the local machine as the source address of the connection. .It Cm CanonicalDomains When .Cm CanonicalizeHostname is enabled, this option specifies the list of domain suffixes in which to search for the specified destination host. .It Cm CanonicalizeFallbackLocal Specifies whether to fail with an error when hostname canonicalization fails. The default, .Cm yes , will attempt to look up the unqualified hostname using the system resolver's search rules. A value of .Cm no will cause .Xr ssh 1 to fail instantly if .Cm CanonicalizeHostname is enabled and the target hostname cannot be found in any of the domains specified by .Cm CanonicalDomains . .It Cm CanonicalizeHostname Controls whether explicit hostname canonicalization is performed. The default, .Cm no , is not to perform any name rewriting and let the system resolver handle all hostname lookups. If set to .Cm yes then, for connections that do not use a .Cm ProxyCommand or .Cm ProxyJump , .Xr ssh 1 will attempt to canonicalize the hostname specified on the command line using the .Cm CanonicalDomains suffixes and .Cm CanonicalizePermittedCNAMEs rules. If .Cm CanonicalizeHostname is set to .Cm always , then canonicalization is applied to proxied connections too. .Pp If this option is enabled, then the configuration files are processed again using the new target name to pick up any new configuration in matching .Cm Host and .Cm Match stanzas. .It Cm CanonicalizeMaxDots Specifies the maximum number of dot characters in a hostname before canonicalization is disabled. The default, 1, allows a single dot (i.e. hostname.subdomain). .It Cm CanonicalizePermittedCNAMEs Specifies rules to determine whether CNAMEs should be followed when canonicalizing hostnames. The rules consist of one or more arguments of .Ar source_domain_list : Ns Ar target_domain_list , where .Ar source_domain_list is a pattern-list of domains that may follow CNAMEs in canonicalization, and .Ar target_domain_list is a pattern-list of domains that they may resolve to. .Pp For example, .Qq *.a.example.com:*.b.example.com,*.c.example.com will allow hostnames matching .Qq *.a.example.com to be canonicalized to names in the .Qq *.b.example.com or .Qq *.c.example.com domains. .It Cm CASignatureAlgorithms Specifies which algorithms are allowed for signing of certificates by certificate authorities (CAs). The default is: .Bd -literal -offset indent ecdsa-sha2-nistp256.ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521, ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa .Ed .Pp .Xr ssh 1 will not accept host certificates signed using algorithms other than those specified. .It Cm CertificateFile Specifies a file from which the user's certificate is read. A corresponding private key must be provided separately in order to use this certificate either from an .Cm IdentityFile directive or .Fl i flag to .Xr ssh 1 , via .Xr ssh-agent 1 , or via a .Cm PKCS11Provider . .Pp Arguments to .Cm CertificateFile may use the tilde syntax to refer to a user's home directory or the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. .Pp It is possible to have multiple certificate files specified in configuration files; these certificates will be tried in sequence. Multiple .Cm CertificateFile directives will add to the list of certificates used for authentication. .It Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication Specifies whether to use challenge-response authentication. The argument to this keyword must be .Cm yes (the default) or .Cm no . .It Cm CheckHostIP If set to .Cm yes , .Xr ssh 1 will additionally check the host IP address in the .Pa known_hosts file. This allows it to detect if a host key changed due to DNS spoofing and will add addresses of destination hosts to .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts in the process, regardless of the setting of .Cm StrictHostKeyChecking . If the option is set to .Cm no , the check will not be executed. The default is .Cm no . .It Cm Ciphers Specifies the ciphers allowed and their order of preference. Multiple ciphers must be comma-separated. If the specified value begins with a .Sq + character, then the specified ciphers will be appended to the default set instead of replacing them. If the specified value begins with a .Sq - character, then the specified ciphers (including wildcards) will be removed from the default set instead of replacing them. .Pp The supported ciphers are: .Bd -literal -offset indent 3des-cbc aes128-cbc aes192-cbc aes256-cbc aes128-ctr aes192-ctr aes256-ctr aes128-gcm@openssh.com aes256-gcm@openssh.com chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com .Ed .Pp The default is: .Bd -literal -offset indent chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com, aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr, aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com .Ed .Pp The list of available ciphers may also be obtained using .Qq ssh -Q cipher . .It Cm ClearAllForwardings Specifies that all local, remote, and dynamic port forwardings specified in the configuration files or on the command line be cleared. This option is primarily useful when used from the .Xr ssh 1 command line to clear port forwardings set in configuration files, and is automatically set by .Xr scp 1 and .Xr sftp 1 . The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). .It Cm Compression Specifies whether to use compression. The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). .It Cm ConnectionAttempts Specifies the number of tries (one per second) to make before exiting. The argument must be an integer. This may be useful in scripts if the connection sometimes fails. The default is 1. .It Cm ConnectTimeout Specifies the timeout (in seconds) used when connecting to the SSH server, instead of using the default system TCP timeout. This value is used only when the target is down or really unreachable, not when it refuses the connection. .It Cm ControlMaster Enables the sharing of multiple sessions over a single network connection. When set to .Cm yes , .Xr ssh 1 will listen for connections on a control socket specified using the .Cm ControlPath argument. Additional sessions can connect to this socket using the same .Cm ControlPath with .Cm ControlMaster set to .Cm no (the default). These sessions will try to reuse the master instance's network connection rather than initiating new ones, but will fall back to connecting normally if the control socket does not exist, or is not listening. .Pp Setting this to .Cm ask will cause .Xr ssh 1 to listen for control connections, but require confirmation using .Xr ssh-askpass 1 . If the .Cm ControlPath cannot be opened, .Xr ssh 1 will continue without connecting to a master instance. .Pp X11 and .Xr ssh-agent 1 forwarding is supported over these multiplexed connections, however the display and agent forwarded will be the one belonging to the master connection i.e. it is not possible to forward multiple displays or agents. .Pp Two additional options allow for opportunistic multiplexing: try to use a master connection but fall back to creating a new one if one does not already exist. These options are: .Cm auto and .Cm autoask . The latter requires confirmation like the .Cm ask option. .It Cm ControlPath Specify the path to the control socket used for connection sharing as described in the .Cm ControlMaster section above or the string .Cm none to disable connection sharing. Arguments to .Cm ControlPath may use the tilde syntax to refer to a user's home directory or the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. It is recommended that any .Cm ControlPath used for opportunistic connection sharing include at least %h, %p, and %r (or alternatively %C) and be placed in a directory that is not writable by other users. This ensures that shared connections are uniquely identified. .It Cm ControlPersist When used in conjunction with .Cm ControlMaster , specifies that the master connection should remain open in the background (waiting for future client connections) after the initial client connection has been closed. If set to .Cm no , then the master connection will not be placed into the background, and will close as soon as the initial client connection is closed. If set to .Cm yes or 0, then the master connection will remain in the background indefinitely (until killed or closed via a mechanism such as the .Qq ssh -O exit ) . If set to a time in seconds, or a time in any of the formats documented in .Xr sshd_config 5 , then the backgrounded master connection will automatically terminate after it has remained idle (with no client connections) for the specified time. .It Cm DynamicForward Specifies that a TCP port on the local machine be forwarded over the secure channel, and the application protocol is then used to determine where to connect to from the remote machine. .Pp The argument must be .Sm off .Oo Ar bind_address : Oc Ar port . .Sm on IPv6 addresses can be specified by enclosing addresses in square brackets. By default, the local port is bound in accordance with the .Cm GatewayPorts setting. However, an explicit .Ar bind_address may be used to bind the connection to a specific address. The .Ar bind_address of .Cm localhost indicates that the listening port be bound for local use only, while an empty address or .Sq * indicates that the port should be available from all interfaces. .Pp Currently the SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 protocols are supported, and .Xr ssh 1 will act as a SOCKS server. Multiple forwardings may be specified, and additional forwardings can be given on the command line. Only the superuser can forward privileged ports. .It Cm EnableSSHKeysign Setting this option to .Cm yes in the global client configuration file .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config enables the use of the helper program .Xr ssh-keysign 8 during .Cm HostbasedAuthentication . The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). This option should be placed in the non-hostspecific section. See .Xr ssh-keysign 8 for more information. .It Cm EscapeChar Sets the escape character (default: .Ql ~ ) . The escape character can also be set on the command line. The argument should be a single character, .Ql ^ followed by a letter, or .Cm none to disable the escape character entirely (making the connection transparent for binary data). .It Cm ExitOnForwardFailure Specifies whether .Xr ssh 1 should terminate the connection if it cannot set up all requested dynamic, tunnel, local, and remote port forwardings, (e.g.\& if either end is unable to bind and listen on a specified port). Note that .Cm ExitOnForwardFailure does not apply to connections made over port forwardings and will not, for example, cause .Xr ssh 1 to exit if TCP connections to the ultimate forwarding destination fail. The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). .It Cm FingerprintHash Specifies the hash algorithm used when displaying key fingerprints. Valid options are: .Cm md5 and .Cm sha256 (the default). .It Cm ForwardAgent Specifies whether the connection to the authentication agent (if any) will be forwarded to the remote machine. The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). .Pp Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution. Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host (for the agent's Unix-domain socket) can access the local agent through the forwarded connection. An attacker cannot obtain key material from the agent, however they can perform operations on the keys that enable them to authenticate using the identities loaded into the agent. .It Cm ForwardX11 Specifies whether X11 connections will be automatically redirected over the secure channel and .Ev DISPLAY set. The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). .Pp X11 forwarding should be enabled with caution. Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host (for the user's X11 authorization database) can access the local X11 display through the forwarded connection. An attacker may then be able to perform activities such as keystroke monitoring if the .Cm ForwardX11Trusted option is also enabled. .It Cm ForwardX11Timeout Specify a timeout for untrusted X11 forwarding using the format described in the .Sx TIME FORMATS section of .Xr sshd_config 5 . X11 connections received by .Xr ssh 1 after this time will be refused. Setting .Cm ForwardX11Timeout to zero will disable the timeout and permit X11 forwarding for the life of the connection. The default is to disable untrusted X11 forwarding after twenty minutes has elapsed. .It Cm ForwardX11Trusted If this option is set to .Cm yes , remote X11 clients will have full access to the original X11 display. .Pp If this option is set to .Cm no (the default), remote X11 clients will be considered untrusted and prevented from stealing or tampering with data belonging to trusted X11 clients. Furthermore, the .Xr xauth 1 token used for the session will be set to expire after 20 minutes. Remote clients will be refused access after this time. .Pp See the X11 SECURITY extension specification for full details on the restrictions imposed on untrusted clients. .It Cm GatewayPorts Specifies whether remote hosts are allowed to connect to local forwarded ports. By default, .Xr ssh 1 binds local port forwardings to the loopback address. This prevents other remote hosts from connecting to forwarded ports. .Cm GatewayPorts can be used to specify that ssh should bind local port forwardings to the wildcard address, thus allowing remote hosts to connect to forwarded ports. The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). .It Cm GlobalKnownHostsFile Specifies one or more files to use for the global host key database, separated by whitespace. The default is .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts , .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2 . .It Cm GSSAPIAuthentication Specifies whether user authentication based on GSSAPI is allowed. The default is .Cm no . .It Cm GSSAPIDelegateCredentials Forward (delegate) credentials to the server. The default is .Cm no . .It Cm HashKnownHosts Indicates that .Xr ssh 1 should hash host names and addresses when they are added to .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts . These hashed names may be used normally by .Xr ssh 1 and .Xr sshd 8 , but they do not reveal identifying information should the file's contents be disclosed. The default is .Cm no . Note that existing names and addresses in known hosts files will not be converted automatically, but may be manually hashed using .Xr ssh-keygen 1 . .It Cm HostbasedAuthentication Specifies whether to try rhosts based authentication with public key authentication. The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). .It Cm HostbasedKeyTypes Specifies the key types that will be used for hostbased authentication as a comma-separated list of patterns. Alternately if the specified value begins with a .Sq + character, then the specified key types will be appended to the default set instead of replacing them. If the specified value begins with a .Sq - character, then the specified key types (including wildcards) will be removed from the default set instead of replacing them. The default for this option is: .Bd -literal -offset 3n ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com, rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521, ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa .Ed .Pp The .Fl Q option of .Xr ssh 1 may be used to list supported key types. .It Cm HostKeyAlgorithms Specifies the host key algorithms that the client wants to use in order of preference. Alternately if the specified value begins with a .Sq + character, then the specified key types will be appended to the default set instead of replacing them. If the specified value begins with a .Sq - character, then the specified key types (including wildcards) will be removed from the default set instead of replacing them. The default for this option is: .Bd -literal -offset 3n ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com, rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521, ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa .Ed .Pp If hostkeys are known for the destination host then this default is modified to prefer their algorithms. .Pp The list of available key types may also be obtained using .Qq ssh -Q key . .It Cm HostKeyAlias Specifies an alias that should be used instead of the real host name when looking up or saving the host key in the host key database files and when validating host certificates. This option is useful for tunneling SSH connections or for multiple servers running on a single host. .It Cm HostName Specifies the real host name to log into. This can be used to specify nicknames or abbreviations for hosts. Arguments to .Cm HostName accept the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. Numeric IP addresses are also permitted (both on the command line and in .Cm HostName specifications). The default is the name given on the command line. .It Cm IdentitiesOnly Specifies that .Xr ssh 1 should only use the authentication identity and certificate files explicitly configured in the .Nm files or passed on the .Xr ssh 1 command-line, even if .Xr ssh-agent 1 or a .Cm PKCS11Provider offers more identities. The argument to this keyword must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). This option is intended for situations where ssh-agent offers many different identities. .It Cm IdentityAgent Specifies the .Ux Ns -domain socket used to communicate with the authentication agent. .Pp This option overrides the .Ev SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable and can be used to select a specific agent. Setting the socket name to .Cm none disables the use of an authentication agent. If the string .Qq SSH_AUTH_SOCK is specified, the location of the socket will be read from the .Ev SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable. Otherwise if the specified value begins with a .Sq $ character, then it will be treated as an environment variable containing the location of the socket. .Pp Arguments to .Cm IdentityAgent may use the tilde syntax to refer to a user's home directory or the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. .It Cm IdentityFile Specifies a file from which the user's DSA, ECDSA, Ed25519 or RSA authentication identity is read. The default is .Pa ~/.ssh/id_dsa , .Pa ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa , .Pa ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 and .Pa ~/.ssh/id_rsa . Additionally, any identities represented by the authentication agent will be used for authentication unless .Cm IdentitiesOnly is set. If no certificates have been explicitly specified by .Cm CertificateFile , .Xr ssh 1 will try to load certificate information from the filename obtained by appending .Pa -cert.pub to the path of a specified .Cm IdentityFile . .Pp Arguments to .Cm IdentityFile may use the tilde syntax to refer to a user's home directory or the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. .Pp It is possible to have multiple identity files specified in configuration files; all these identities will be tried in sequence. Multiple .Cm IdentityFile directives will add to the list of identities tried (this behaviour differs from that of other configuration directives). .Pp .Cm IdentityFile may be used in conjunction with .Cm IdentitiesOnly to select which identities in an agent are offered during authentication. .Cm IdentityFile may also be used in conjunction with .Cm CertificateFile in order to provide any certificate also needed for authentication with the identity. .It Cm IgnoreUnknown Specifies a pattern-list of unknown options to be ignored if they are encountered in configuration parsing. This may be used to suppress errors if .Nm contains options that are unrecognised by .Xr ssh 1 . It is recommended that .Cm IgnoreUnknown be listed early in the configuration file as it will not be applied to unknown options that appear before it. .It Cm Include Include the specified configuration file(s). Multiple pathnames may be specified and each pathname may contain .Xr glob 7 wildcards and, for user configurations, shell-like .Sq ~ references to user home directories. Files without absolute paths are assumed to be in .Pa ~/.ssh if included in a user configuration file or .Pa /etc/ssh if included from the system configuration file. .Cm Include directive may appear inside a .Cm Match or .Cm Host block to perform conditional inclusion. .It Cm IPQoS Specifies the IPv4 type-of-service or DSCP class for connections. Accepted values are .Cm af11 , .Cm af12 , .Cm af13 , .Cm af21 , .Cm af22 , .Cm af23 , .Cm af31 , .Cm af32 , .Cm af33 , .Cm af41 , .Cm af42 , .Cm af43 , .Cm cs0 , .Cm cs1 , .Cm cs2 , .Cm cs3 , .Cm cs4 , .Cm cs5 , .Cm cs6 , .Cm cs7 , .Cm ef , .Cm lowdelay , .Cm throughput , .Cm reliability , a numeric value, or .Cm none to use the operating system default. This option may take one or two arguments, separated by whitespace. If one argument is specified, it is used as the packet class unconditionally. If two values are specified, the first is automatically selected for interactive sessions and the second for non-interactive sessions. The default is .Cm af21 (Low-Latency Data) for interactive sessions and .Cm cs1 (Lower Effort) for non-interactive sessions. .It Cm KbdInteractiveAuthentication Specifies whether to use keyboard-interactive authentication. The argument to this keyword must be .Cm yes (the default) or .Cm no . .It Cm KbdInteractiveDevices Specifies the list of methods to use in keyboard-interactive authentication. Multiple method names must be comma-separated. The default is to use the server specified list. The methods available vary depending on what the server supports. For an OpenSSH server, it may be zero or more of: .Cm bsdauth and .Cm pam . .It Cm KexAlgorithms Specifies the available KEX (Key Exchange) algorithms. Multiple algorithms must be comma-separated. Alternately if the specified value begins with a .Sq + character, then the specified methods will be appended to the default set instead of replacing them. If the specified value begins with a .Sq - character, then the specified methods (including wildcards) will be removed from the default set instead of replacing them. The default is: .Bd -literal -offset indent curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org, ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256, diffie-hellman-group16-sha512, diffie-hellman-group18-sha512, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1, diffie-hellman-group14-sha256, diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 .Ed .Pp The list of available key exchange algorithms may also be obtained using .Qq ssh -Q kex . .It Cm LocalCommand Specifies a command to execute on the local machine after successfully connecting to the server. The command string extends to the end of the line, and is executed with the user's shell. Arguments to .Cm LocalCommand accept the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. .Pp The command is run synchronously and does not have access to the session of the .Xr ssh 1 that spawned it. It should not be used for interactive commands. .Pp This directive is ignored unless .Cm PermitLocalCommand has been enabled. .It Cm LocalForward Specifies that a TCP port on the local machine be forwarded over the secure channel to the specified host and port from the remote machine. The first argument must be .Sm off .Oo Ar bind_address : Oc Ar port .Sm on and the second argument must be .Ar host : Ns Ar hostport . IPv6 addresses can be specified by enclosing addresses in square brackets. Multiple forwardings may be specified, and additional forwardings can be given on the command line. Only the superuser can forward privileged ports. By default, the local port is bound in accordance with the .Cm GatewayPorts setting. However, an explicit .Ar bind_address may be used to bind the connection to a specific address. The .Ar bind_address of .Cm localhost indicates that the listening port be bound for local use only, while an empty address or .Sq * indicates that the port should be available from all interfaces. .It Cm LogLevel Gives the verbosity level that is used when logging messages from .Xr ssh 1 . The possible values are: QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1, DEBUG2, and DEBUG3. The default is INFO. DEBUG and DEBUG1 are equivalent. DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of verbose output. .It Cm MACs Specifies the MAC (message authentication code) algorithms in order of preference. The MAC algorithm is used for data integrity protection. Multiple algorithms must be comma-separated. If the specified value begins with a .Sq + character, then the specified algorithms will be appended to the default set instead of replacing them. If the specified value begins with a .Sq - character, then the specified algorithms (including wildcards) will be removed from the default set instead of replacing them. .Pp The algorithms that contain .Qq -etm calculate the MAC after encryption (encrypt-then-mac). These are considered safer and their use recommended. .Pp The default is: .Bd -literal -offset indent umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com, hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com, hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com, umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com, hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1 .Ed .Pp The list of available MAC algorithms may also be obtained using .Qq ssh -Q mac . .It Cm NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost Disable host authentication for localhost (loopback addresses). The argument to this keyword must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). .It Cm NumberOfPasswordPrompts Specifies the number of password prompts before giving up. The argument to this keyword must be an integer. The default is 3. .It Cm PasswordAuthentication Specifies whether to use password authentication. The argument to this keyword must be .Cm yes (the default) or .Cm no . .It Cm PermitLocalCommand Allow local command execution via the .Ic LocalCommand option or using the .Ic !\& Ns Ar command escape sequence in .Xr ssh 1 . The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). .It Cm PKCS11Provider Specifies which PKCS#11 provider to use. The argument to this keyword is the PKCS#11 shared library .Xr ssh 1 should use to communicate with a PKCS#11 token providing the user's private RSA key. .It Cm Port Specifies the port number to connect on the remote host. The default is 22. .It Cm PreferredAuthentications Specifies the order in which the client should try authentication methods. This allows a client to prefer one method (e.g.\& .Cm keyboard-interactive ) over another method (e.g.\& .Cm password ) . The default is: .Bd -literal -offset indent gssapi-with-mic,hostbased,publickey, keyboard-interactive,password .Ed .It Cm ProxyCommand Specifies the command to use to connect to the server. The command string extends to the end of the line, and is executed using the user's shell .Ql exec directive to avoid a lingering shell process. .Pp Arguments to .Cm ProxyCommand accept the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. The command can be basically anything, and should read from its standard input and write to its standard output. It should eventually connect an .Xr sshd 8 server running on some machine, or execute .Ic sshd -i somewhere. Host key management will be done using the HostName of the host being connected (defaulting to the name typed by the user). Setting the command to .Cm none disables this option entirely. Note that .Cm CheckHostIP is not available for connects with a proxy command. .Pp This directive is useful in conjunction with .Xr nc 1 and its proxy support. For example, the following directive would connect via an HTTP proxy at 192.0.2.0: .Bd -literal -offset 3n ProxyCommand /usr/bin/nc -X connect -x 192.0.2.0:8080 %h %p .Ed .It Cm ProxyJump Specifies one or more jump proxies as either .Xo .Sm off .Op Ar user No @ .Ar host .Op : Ns Ar port .Sm on or an ssh URI .Xc . Multiple proxies may be separated by comma characters and will be visited sequentially. Setting this option will cause .Xr ssh 1 to connect to the target host by first making a .Xr ssh 1 connection to the specified .Cm ProxyJump host and then establishing a TCP forwarding to the ultimate target from there. .Pp Note that this option will compete with the .Cm ProxyCommand option - whichever is specified first will prevent later instances of the other from taking effect. .It Cm ProxyUseFdpass Specifies that .Cm ProxyCommand will pass a connected file descriptor back to .Xr ssh 1 instead of continuing to execute and pass data. The default is .Cm no . .It Cm PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes Specifies the key types that will be used for public key authentication as a comma-separated list of patterns. Alternately if the specified value begins with a .Sq + character, then the key types after it will be appended to the default instead of replacing it. If the specified value begins with a .Sq - character, then the specified key types (including wildcards) will be removed from the default set instead of replacing them. The default for this option is: .Bd -literal -offset 3n ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com, rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521, ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa .Ed .Pp The list of available key types may also be obtained using .Qq ssh -Q key . .It Cm PubkeyAuthentication Specifies whether to try public key authentication. The argument to this keyword must be .Cm yes (the default) or .Cm no . .It Cm RekeyLimit Specifies the maximum amount of data that may be transmitted before the session key is renegotiated, optionally followed a maximum amount of time that may pass before the session key is renegotiated. The first argument is specified in bytes and may have a suffix of .Sq K , .Sq M , or .Sq G to indicate Kilobytes, Megabytes, or Gigabytes, respectively. The default is between .Sq 1G and .Sq 4G , depending on the cipher. The optional second value is specified in seconds and may use any of the units documented in the .Sx TIME FORMATS section of .Xr sshd_config 5 . The default value for .Cm RekeyLimit is .Cm default none , which means that rekeying is performed after the cipher's default amount of data has been sent or received and no time based rekeying is done. .It Cm RemoteCommand Specifies a command to execute on the remote machine after successfully connecting to the server. The command string extends to the end of the line, and is executed with the user's shell. Arguments to .Cm RemoteCommand accept the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. .It Cm RemoteForward Specifies that a TCP port on the remote machine be forwarded over the secure channel. The remote port may either be forwarded to a specified host and port from the local machine, or may act as a SOCKS 4/5 proxy that allows a remote client to connect to arbitrary destinations from the local machine. The first argument must be .Sm off .Oo Ar bind_address : Oc Ar port .Sm on If forwarding to a specific destination then the second argument must be .Ar host : Ns Ar hostport , otherwise if no destination argument is specified then the remote forwarding will be established as a SOCKS proxy. .Pp IPv6 addresses can be specified by enclosing addresses in square brackets. Multiple forwardings may be specified, and additional forwardings can be given on the command line. Privileged ports can be forwarded only when logging in as root on the remote machine. .Pp If the .Ar port argument is 0, the listen port will be dynamically allocated on the server and reported to the client at run time. .Pp If the .Ar bind_address is not specified, the default is to only bind to loopback addresses. If the .Ar bind_address is .Ql * or an empty string, then the forwarding is requested to listen on all interfaces. Specifying a remote .Ar bind_address will only succeed if the server's .Cm GatewayPorts option is enabled (see .Xr sshd_config 5 ) . .It Cm RequestTTY Specifies whether to request a pseudo-tty for the session. The argument may be one of: .Cm no (never request a TTY), .Cm yes (always request a TTY when standard input is a TTY), .Cm force (always request a TTY) or .Cm auto (request a TTY when opening a login session). This option mirrors the .Fl t and .Fl T flags for .Xr ssh 1 . .It Cm RevokedHostKeys Specifies revoked host public keys. Keys listed in this file will be refused for host authentication. Note that if this file does not exist or is not readable, then host authentication will be refused for all hosts. Keys may be specified as a text file, listing one public key per line, or as an OpenSSH Key Revocation List (KRL) as generated by .Xr ssh-keygen 1 . For more information on KRLs, see the KEY REVOCATION LISTS section in .Xr ssh-keygen 1 . .It Cm SendEnv Specifies what variables from the local .Xr environ 7 should be sent to the server. The server must also support it, and the server must be configured to accept these environment variables. Note that the .Ev TERM environment variable is always sent whenever a pseudo-terminal is requested as it is required by the protocol. Refer to .Cm AcceptEnv in .Xr sshd_config 5 for how to configure the server. Variables are specified by name, which may contain wildcard characters. Multiple environment variables may be separated by whitespace or spread across multiple .Cm SendEnv directives. .Pp See .Sx PATTERNS for more information on patterns. .Pp It is possible to clear previously set .Cm SendEnv variable names by prefixing patterns with .Pa - . The default is not to send any environment variables. .It Cm ServerAliveCountMax Sets the number of server alive messages (see below) which may be sent without .Xr ssh 1 receiving any messages back from the server. If this threshold is reached while server alive messages are being sent, ssh will disconnect from the server, terminating the session. It is important to note that the use of server alive messages is very different from .Cm TCPKeepAlive (below). The server alive messages are sent through the encrypted channel and therefore will not be spoofable. The TCP keepalive option enabled by .Cm TCPKeepAlive is spoofable. The server alive mechanism is valuable when the client or server depend on knowing when a connection has become inactive. .Pp The default value is 3. If, for example, .Cm ServerAliveInterval (see below) is set to 15 and .Cm ServerAliveCountMax is left at the default, if the server becomes unresponsive, ssh will disconnect after approximately 45 seconds. .It Cm ServerAliveInterval Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has been received from the server, .Xr ssh 1 will send a message through the encrypted channel to request a response from the server. The default is 0, indicating that these messages will not be sent to the server. .It Cm SetEnv Directly specify one or more environment variables and their contents to be sent to the server. Similarly to .Cm SendEnv , the server must be prepared to accept the environment variable. .It Cm StreamLocalBindMask Sets the octal file creation mode mask .Pq umask used when creating a Unix-domain socket file for local or remote port forwarding. This option is only used for port forwarding to a Unix-domain socket file. .Pp The default value is 0177, which creates a Unix-domain socket file that is readable and writable only by the owner. Note that not all operating systems honor the file mode on Unix-domain socket files. .It Cm StreamLocalBindUnlink Specifies whether to remove an existing Unix-domain socket file for local or remote port forwarding before creating a new one. If the socket file already exists and .Cm StreamLocalBindUnlink is not enabled, .Nm ssh will be unable to forward the port to the Unix-domain socket file. This option is only used for port forwarding to a Unix-domain socket file. .Pp The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no (the default). .It Cm StrictHostKeyChecking If this flag is set to .Cm yes , .Xr ssh 1 will never automatically add host keys to the .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts file, and refuses to connect to hosts whose host key has changed. This provides maximum protection against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, though it can be annoying when the .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts file is poorly maintained or when connections to new hosts are frequently made. This option forces the user to manually add all new hosts. .Pp If this flag is set to .Dq accept-new then ssh will automatically add new host keys to the user known hosts files, but will not permit connections to hosts with changed host keys. If this flag is set to .Dq no or .Dq off , ssh will automatically add new host keys to the user known hosts files and allow connections to hosts with changed hostkeys to proceed, subject to some restrictions. If this flag is set to .Cm ask (the default), new host keys will be added to the user known host files only after the user has confirmed that is what they really want to do, and ssh will refuse to connect to hosts whose host key has changed. The host keys of known hosts will be verified automatically in all cases. .It Cm SyslogFacility Gives the facility code that is used when logging messages from .Xr ssh 1 . The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH, LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2, LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7. The default is USER. .It Cm TCPKeepAlive Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages to the other side. If they are sent, death of the connection or crash of one of the machines will be properly noticed. However, this means that connections will die if the route is down temporarily, and some people find it annoying. .Pp The default is .Cm yes (to send TCP keepalive messages), and the client will notice if the network goes down or the remote host dies. This is important in scripts, and many users want it too. .Pp To disable TCP keepalive messages, the value should be set to .Cm no . See also .Cm ServerAliveInterval for protocol-level keepalives. .It Cm Tunnel Request .Xr tun 4 device forwarding between the client and the server. The argument must be .Cm yes , .Cm point-to-point (layer 3), .Cm ethernet (layer 2), or .Cm no (the default). Specifying .Cm yes requests the default tunnel mode, which is .Cm point-to-point . .It Cm TunnelDevice Specifies the .Xr tun 4 devices to open on the client .Pq Ar local_tun and the server .Pq Ar remote_tun . .Pp The argument must be .Sm off .Ar local_tun Op : Ar remote_tun . .Sm on The devices may be specified by numerical ID or the keyword .Cm any , which uses the next available tunnel device. If .Ar remote_tun is not specified, it defaults to .Cm any . The default is .Cm any:any . .It Cm UpdateHostKeys Specifies whether .Xr ssh 1 should accept notifications of additional hostkeys from the server sent after authentication has completed and add them to .Cm UserKnownHostsFile . The argument must be .Cm yes , .Cm no (the default) or .Cm ask . Enabling this option allows learning alternate hostkeys for a server and supports graceful key rotation by allowing a server to send replacement public keys before old ones are removed. Additional hostkeys are only accepted if the key used to authenticate the host was already trusted or explicitly accepted by the user. If .Cm UpdateHostKeys is set to .Cm ask , then the user is asked to confirm the modifications to the known_hosts file. Confirmation is currently incompatible with .Cm ControlPersist , and will be disabled if it is enabled. .Pp Presently, only .Xr sshd 8 from OpenSSH 6.8 and greater support the .Qq hostkeys@openssh.com protocol extension used to inform the client of all the server's hostkeys. .It Cm User Specifies the user to log in as. This can be useful when a different user name is used on different machines. This saves the trouble of having to remember to give the user name on the command line. .It Cm UserKnownHostsFile Specifies one or more files to use for the user host key database, separated by whitespace. The default is .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts , .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts2 . .It Cm VerifyHostKeyDNS Specifies whether to verify the remote key using DNS and SSHFP resource records. If this option is set to .Cm yes , the client will implicitly trust keys that match a secure fingerprint from DNS. Insecure fingerprints will be handled as if this option was set to .Cm ask . If this option is set to .Cm ask , information on fingerprint match will be displayed, but the user will still need to confirm new host keys according to the .Cm StrictHostKeyChecking option. The default is .Cm yes if compiled with LDNS and .Cm no otherwise. .Pp See also .Sx VERIFYING HOST KEYS in .Xr ssh 1 . .It Cm VersionAddendum Specifies a string to append to the regular version string to identify OS- or site-specific modifications. The default is -.Dq FreeBSD-20180909 . +.Dq FreeBSD-20200214 . The value .Cm none may be used to disable this. .It Cm VisualHostKey If this flag is set to .Cm yes , an ASCII art representation of the remote host key fingerprint is printed in addition to the fingerprint string at login and for unknown host keys. If this flag is set to .Cm no (the default), no fingerprint strings are printed at login and only the fingerprint string will be printed for unknown host keys. .It Cm XAuthLocation Specifies the full pathname of the .Xr xauth 1 program. The default is .Pa /usr/local/bin/xauth . .El .Sh PATTERNS A .Em pattern consists of zero or more non-whitespace characters, .Sq * (a wildcard that matches zero or more characters), or .Sq ?\& (a wildcard that matches exactly one character). For example, to specify a set of declarations for any host in the .Qq .co.uk set of domains, the following pattern could be used: .Pp .Dl Host *.co.uk .Pp The following pattern would match any host in the 192.168.0.[0-9] network range: .Pp .Dl Host 192.168.0.? .Pp A .Em pattern-list is a comma-separated list of patterns. Patterns within pattern-lists may be negated by preceding them with an exclamation mark .Pq Sq !\& . For example, to allow a key to be used from anywhere within an organization except from the .Qq dialup pool, the following entry (in authorized_keys) could be used: .Pp .Dl from=\&"!*.dialup.example.com,*.example.com\&" .Pp Note that a negated match will never produce a positive result by itself. For example, attempting to match .Qq host3 against the following pattern-list will fail: .Pp .Dl from=\&"!host1,!host2\&" .Pp The solution here is to include a term that will yield a positive match, such as a wildcard: .Pp .Dl from=\&"!host1,!host2,*\&" .Sh TOKENS Arguments to some keywords can make use of tokens, which are expanded at runtime: .Pp .Bl -tag -width XXXX -offset indent -compact .It %% A literal .Sq % . .It \&%C Hash of %l%h%p%r. .It %d Local user's home directory. .It %h The remote hostname. .It %i The local user ID. .It %L The local hostname. .It %l The local hostname, including the domain name. .It %n The original remote hostname, as given on the command line. .It %p The remote port. .It %r The remote username. .It \&%T The local .Xr tun 4 or .Xr tap 4 network interface assigned if tunnel forwarding was requested, or .Qq NONE otherwise. .It %u The local username. .El .Pp .Cm Match exec accepts the tokens %%, %h, %i, %L, %l, %n, %p, %r, and %u. .Pp .Cm CertificateFile accepts the tokens %%, %d, %h, %i, %l, %r, and %u. .Pp .Cm ControlPath accepts the tokens %%, %C, %h, %i, %L, %l, %n, %p, %r, and %u. .Pp .Cm HostName accepts the tokens %% and %h. .Pp .Cm IdentityAgent and .Cm IdentityFile accept the tokens %%, %d, %h, %i, %l, %r, and %u. .Pp .Cm LocalCommand accepts the tokens %%, %C, %d, %h, %i, %l, %n, %p, %r, %T, and %u. .Pp .Cm ProxyCommand accepts the tokens %%, %h, %p, and %r. .Pp .Cm RemoteCommand accepts the tokens %%, %C, %d, %h, %i, %l, %n, %p, %r, and %u. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Pa ~/.ssh/config This is the per-user configuration file. The format of this file is described above. This file is used by the SSH client. Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: read/write for the user, and not accessible by others. .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config Systemwide configuration file. This file provides defaults for those values that are not specified in the user's configuration file, and for those users who do not have a configuration file. This file must be world-readable. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ssh 1 .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by .An Tatu Ylonen . .An Aaron Campbell , Bob Beck , Markus Friedl , .An Niels Provos , Theo de Raadt and .An Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and created OpenSSH. .An Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0. diff --git a/crypto/openssh/sshd_config.5 b/crypto/openssh/sshd_config.5 index d28622d984a1..0ae5e665af3d 100644 --- a/crypto/openssh/sshd_config.5 +++ b/crypto/openssh/sshd_config.5 @@ -1,1851 +1,1851 @@ .\" .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen , Espoo, Finland .\" All rights reserved .\" .\" As far as I am concerned, the code I have written for this software .\" can be used freely for any purpose. Any derived versions of this .\" software must be clearly marked as such, and if the derived work is .\" incompatible with the protocol description in the RFC file, it must be .\" called by a name other than "ssh" or "Secure Shell". .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1999,2000 Markus Friedl. All rights reserved. .\" Copyright (c) 1999 Aaron Campbell. All rights reserved. .\" Copyright (c) 1999 Theo de Raadt. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES .\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. .\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, .\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT .\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, .\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY .\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $OpenBSD: sshd_config.5,v 1.282 2018/09/20 03:28:06 djm Exp $ .\" $FreeBSD$ .Dd $Mdocdate: July 28 2020 $ .Dt SSHD_CONFIG 5 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm sshd_config .Nd OpenSSH SSH daemon configuration file .Sh DESCRIPTION .Xr sshd 8 reads configuration data from .Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config (or the file specified with .Fl f on the command line). The file contains keyword-argument pairs, one per line. For each keyword, the first obtained value will be used. Lines starting with .Ql # and empty lines are interpreted as comments. Arguments may optionally be enclosed in double quotes .Pq \&" in order to represent arguments containing spaces. .Pp The possible keywords and their meanings are as follows (note that keywords are case-insensitive and arguments are case-sensitive): .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Cm AcceptEnv Specifies what environment variables sent by the client will be copied into the session's .Xr environ 7 . See .Cm SendEnv and .Cm SetEnv in .Xr ssh_config 5 for how to configure the client. The .Ev TERM environment variable is always accepted whenever the client requests a pseudo-terminal as it is required by the protocol. Variables are specified by name, which may contain the wildcard characters .Ql * and .Ql \&? . Multiple environment variables may be separated by whitespace or spread across multiple .Cm AcceptEnv directives. Be warned that some environment variables could be used to bypass restricted user environments. For this reason, care should be taken in the use of this directive. The default is not to accept any environment variables. .It Cm AddressFamily Specifies which address family should be used by .Xr sshd 8 . Valid arguments are .Cm any (the default), .Cm inet (use IPv4 only), or .Cm inet6 (use IPv6 only). .It Cm AllowAgentForwarding Specifies whether .Xr ssh-agent 1 forwarding is permitted. The default is .Cm yes . Note that disabling agent forwarding does not improve security unless users are also denied shell access, as they can always install their own forwarders. .It Cm AllowGroups This keyword can be followed by a list of group name patterns, separated by spaces. If specified, login is allowed only for users whose primary group or supplementary group list matches one of the patterns. Only group names are valid; a numerical group ID is not recognized. By default, login is allowed for all groups. The allow/deny directives are processed in the following order: .Cm DenyUsers , .Cm AllowUsers , .Cm DenyGroups , and finally .Cm AllowGroups . .Pp See PATTERNS in .Xr ssh_config 5 for more information on patterns. .It Cm AllowStreamLocalForwarding Specifies whether StreamLocal (Unix-domain socket) forwarding is permitted. The available options are .Cm yes (the default) or .Cm all to allow StreamLocal forwarding, .Cm no to prevent all StreamLocal forwarding, .Cm local to allow local (from the perspective of .Xr ssh 1 ) forwarding only or .Cm remote to allow remote forwarding only. Note that disabling StreamLocal forwarding does not improve security unless users are also denied shell access, as they can always install their own forwarders. .It Cm AllowTcpForwarding Specifies whether TCP forwarding is permitted. The available options are .Cm yes (the default) or .Cm all to allow TCP forwarding, .Cm no to prevent all TCP forwarding, .Cm local to allow local (from the perspective of .Xr ssh 1 ) forwarding only or .Cm remote to allow remote forwarding only. Note that disabling TCP forwarding does not improve security unless users are also denied shell access, as they can always install their own forwarders. .It Cm AllowUsers This keyword can be followed by a list of user name patterns, separated by spaces. If specified, login is allowed only for user names that match one of the patterns. Only user names are valid; a numerical user ID is not recognized. By default, login is allowed for all users. If the pattern takes the form USER@HOST then USER and HOST are separately checked, restricting logins to particular users from particular hosts. HOST criteria may additionally contain addresses to match in CIDR address/masklen format. The allow/deny directives are processed in the following order: .Cm DenyUsers , .Cm AllowUsers , .Cm DenyGroups , and finally .Cm AllowGroups . .Pp See PATTERNS in .Xr ssh_config 5 for more information on patterns. .It Cm AuthenticationMethods Specifies the authentication methods that must be successfully completed for a user to be granted access. This option must be followed by one or more lists of comma-separated authentication method names, or by the single string .Cm any to indicate the default behaviour of accepting any single authentication method. If the default is overridden, then successful authentication requires completion of every method in at least one of these lists. .Pp For example, .Qq publickey,password publickey,keyboard-interactive would require the user to complete public key authentication, followed by either password or keyboard interactive authentication. Only methods that are next in one or more lists are offered at each stage, so for this example it would not be possible to attempt password or keyboard-interactive authentication before public key. .Pp For keyboard interactive authentication it is also possible to restrict authentication to a specific device by appending a colon followed by the device identifier .Cm bsdauth or .Cm pam . depending on the server configuration. For example, .Qq keyboard-interactive:bsdauth would restrict keyboard interactive authentication to the .Cm bsdauth device. .Pp If the publickey method is listed more than once, .Xr sshd 8 verifies that keys that have been used successfully are not reused for subsequent authentications. For example, .Qq publickey,publickey requires successful authentication using two different public keys. .Pp Note that each authentication method listed should also be explicitly enabled in the configuration. .Pp The available authentication methods are: .Qq gssapi-with-mic , .Qq hostbased , .Qq keyboard-interactive , .Qq none (used for access to password-less accounts when .Cm PermitEmptyPasswords is enabled), .Qq password and .Qq publickey . .It Cm AuthorizedKeysCommand Specifies a program to be used to look up the user's public keys. The program must be owned by root, not writable by group or others and specified by an absolute path. Arguments to .Cm AuthorizedKeysCommand accept the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. If no arguments are specified then the username of the target user is used. .Pp The program should produce on standard output zero or more lines of authorized_keys output (see .Sx AUTHORIZED_KEYS in .Xr sshd 8 ) . If a key supplied by .Cm AuthorizedKeysCommand does not successfully authenticate and authorize the user then public key authentication continues using the usual .Cm AuthorizedKeysFile files. By default, no .Cm AuthorizedKeysCommand is run. .It Cm AuthorizedKeysCommandUser Specifies the user under whose account the .Cm AuthorizedKeysCommand is run. It is recommended to use a dedicated user that has no other role on the host than running authorized keys commands. If .Cm AuthorizedKeysCommand is specified but .Cm AuthorizedKeysCommandUser is not, then .Xr sshd 8 will refuse to start. .It Cm AuthorizedKeysFile Specifies the file that contains the public keys used for user authentication. The format is described in the .Sx AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT section of .Xr sshd 8 . Arguments to .Cm AuthorizedKeysFile accept the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. After expansion, .Cm AuthorizedKeysFile is taken to be an absolute path or one relative to the user's home directory. Multiple files may be listed, separated by whitespace. Alternately this option may be set to .Cm none to skip checking for user keys in files. The default is .Qq .ssh/authorized_keys .ssh/authorized_keys2 . .It Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand Specifies a program to be used to generate the list of allowed certificate principals as per .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsFile . The program must be owned by root, not writable by group or others and specified by an absolute path. Arguments to .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand accept the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. If no arguments are specified then the username of the target user is used. .Pp The program should produce on standard output zero or more lines of .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsFile output. If either .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand or .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsFile is specified, then certificates offered by the client for authentication must contain a principal that is listed. By default, no .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand is run. .It Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsCommandUser Specifies the user under whose account the .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand is run. It is recommended to use a dedicated user that has no other role on the host than running authorized principals commands. If .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand is specified but .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsCommandUser is not, then .Xr sshd 8 will refuse to start. .It Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsFile Specifies a file that lists principal names that are accepted for certificate authentication. When using certificates signed by a key listed in .Cm TrustedUserCAKeys , this file lists names, one of which must appear in the certificate for it to be accepted for authentication. Names are listed one per line preceded by key options (as described in .Sx AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT in .Xr sshd 8 ) . Empty lines and comments starting with .Ql # are ignored. .Pp Arguments to .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsFile accept the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. After expansion, .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsFile is taken to be an absolute path or one relative to the user's home directory. The default is .Cm none , i.e. not to use a principals file \(en in this case, the username of the user must appear in a certificate's principals list for it to be accepted. .Pp Note that .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsFile is only used when authentication proceeds using a CA listed in .Cm TrustedUserCAKeys and is not consulted for certification authorities trusted via .Pa ~/.ssh/authorized_keys , though the .Cm principals= key option offers a similar facility (see .Xr sshd 8 for details). .It Cm Banner The contents of the specified file are sent to the remote user before authentication is allowed. If the argument is .Cm none then no banner is displayed. By default, no banner is displayed. .It Cm CASignatureAlgorithms Specifies which algorithms are allowed for signing of certificates by certificate authorities (CAs). The default is: .Bd -literal -offset indent ecdsa-sha2-nistp256.ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521, ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa .Ed .Pp Certificates signed using other algorithms will not be accepted for public key or host-based authentication. .It Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication Specifies whether challenge-response authentication is allowed (e.g. via PAM or through authentication styles supported in .Xr login.conf 5 ) The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm ChrootDirectory Specifies the pathname of a directory to .Xr chroot 2 to after authentication. At session startup .Xr sshd 8 checks that all components of the pathname are root-owned directories which are not writable by any other user or group. After the chroot, .Xr sshd 8 changes the working directory to the user's home directory. Arguments to .Cm ChrootDirectory accept the tokens described in the .Sx TOKENS section. .Pp The .Cm ChrootDirectory must contain the necessary files and directories to support the user's session. For an interactive session this requires at least a shell, typically .Xr sh 1 , and basic .Pa /dev nodes such as .Xr null 4 , .Xr zero 4 , .Xr stdin 4 , .Xr stdout 4 , .Xr stderr 4 , and .Xr tty 4 devices. For file transfer sessions using SFTP no additional configuration of the environment is necessary if the in-process sftp-server is used, though sessions which use logging may require .Pa /dev/log inside the chroot directory on some operating systems (see .Xr sftp-server 8 for details). .Pp For safety, it is very important that the directory hierarchy be prevented from modification by other processes on the system (especially those outside the jail). Misconfiguration can lead to unsafe environments which .Xr sshd 8 cannot detect. .Pp The default is .Cm none , indicating not to .Xr chroot 2 . .It Cm Ciphers Specifies the ciphers allowed. Multiple ciphers must be comma-separated. If the specified value begins with a .Sq + character, then the specified ciphers will be appended to the default set instead of replacing them. If the specified value begins with a .Sq - character, then the specified ciphers (including wildcards) will be removed from the default set instead of replacing them. .Pp The supported ciphers are: .Pp .Bl -item -compact -offset indent .It 3des-cbc .It aes128-cbc .It aes192-cbc .It aes256-cbc .It aes128-ctr .It aes192-ctr .It aes256-ctr .It aes128-gcm@openssh.com .It aes256-gcm@openssh.com .It chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com .El .Pp The default is: .Bd -literal -offset indent chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com, aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr, aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com .Ed .Pp The list of available ciphers may also be obtained using .Qq ssh -Q cipher . .It Cm ClientAliveCountMax Sets the number of client alive messages which may be sent without .Xr sshd 8 receiving any messages back from the client. If this threshold is reached while client alive messages are being sent, sshd will disconnect the client, terminating the session. It is important to note that the use of client alive messages is very different from .Cm TCPKeepAlive . The client alive messages are sent through the encrypted channel and therefore will not be spoofable. The TCP keepalive option enabled by .Cm TCPKeepAlive is spoofable. The client alive mechanism is valuable when the client or server depend on knowing when a connection has become inactive. .Pp The default value is 3. If .Cm ClientAliveInterval is set to 15, and .Cm ClientAliveCountMax is left at the default, unresponsive SSH clients will be disconnected after approximately 45 seconds. .It Cm ClientAliveInterval Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has been received from the client, .Xr sshd 8 will send a message through the encrypted channel to request a response from the client. The default is 0, indicating that these messages will not be sent to the client. .It Cm Compression Specifies whether compression is enabled after the user has authenticated successfully. The argument must be .Cm yes , .Cm delayed (a legacy synonym for .Cm yes ) or .Cm no . The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm DenyGroups This keyword can be followed by a list of group name patterns, separated by spaces. Login is disallowed for users whose primary group or supplementary group list matches one of the patterns. Only group names are valid; a numerical group ID is not recognized. By default, login is allowed for all groups. The allow/deny directives are processed in the following order: .Cm DenyUsers , .Cm AllowUsers , .Cm DenyGroups , and finally .Cm AllowGroups . .Pp See PATTERNS in .Xr ssh_config 5 for more information on patterns. .It Cm DenyUsers This keyword can be followed by a list of user name patterns, separated by spaces. Login is disallowed for user names that match one of the patterns. Only user names are valid; a numerical user ID is not recognized. By default, login is allowed for all users. If the pattern takes the form USER@HOST then USER and HOST are separately checked, restricting logins to particular users from particular hosts. HOST criteria may additionally contain addresses to match in CIDR address/masklen format. The allow/deny directives are processed in the following order: .Cm DenyUsers , .Cm AllowUsers , .Cm DenyGroups , and finally .Cm AllowGroups . .Pp See PATTERNS in .Xr ssh_config 5 for more information on patterns. .It Cm DisableForwarding Disables all forwarding features, including X11, .Xr ssh-agent 1 , TCP and StreamLocal. This option overrides all other forwarding-related options and may simplify restricted configurations. .It Cm ExposeAuthInfo Writes a temporary file containing a list of authentication methods and public credentials (e.g. keys) used to authenticate the user. The location of the file is exposed to the user session through the .Ev SSH_USER_AUTH environment variable. The default is .Cm no . .It Cm FingerprintHash Specifies the hash algorithm used when logging key fingerprints. Valid options are: .Cm md5 and .Cm sha256 . The default is .Cm sha256 . .It Cm ForceCommand Forces the execution of the command specified by .Cm ForceCommand , ignoring any command supplied by the client and .Pa ~/.ssh/rc if present. The command is invoked by using the user's login shell with the -c option. This applies to shell, command, or subsystem execution. It is most useful inside a .Cm Match block. The command originally supplied by the client is available in the .Ev SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND environment variable. Specifying a command of .Cm internal-sftp will force the use of an in-process SFTP server that requires no support files when used with .Cm ChrootDirectory . The default is .Cm none . .It Cm GatewayPorts Specifies whether remote hosts are allowed to connect to ports forwarded for the client. By default, .Xr sshd 8 binds remote port forwardings to the loopback address. This prevents other remote hosts from connecting to forwarded ports. .Cm GatewayPorts can be used to specify that sshd should allow remote port forwardings to bind to non-loopback addresses, thus allowing other hosts to connect. The argument may be .Cm no to force remote port forwardings to be available to the local host only, .Cm yes to force remote port forwardings to bind to the wildcard address, or .Cm clientspecified to allow the client to select the address to which the forwarding is bound. The default is .Cm no . .It Cm GSSAPIAuthentication Specifies whether user authentication based on GSSAPI is allowed. The default is .Cm no . .It Cm GSSAPICleanupCredentials Specifies whether to automatically destroy the user's credentials cache on logout. The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm GSSAPIStrictAcceptorCheck Determines whether to be strict about the identity of the GSSAPI acceptor a client authenticates against. If set to .Cm yes then the client must authenticate against the host service on the current hostname. If set to .Cm no then the client may authenticate against any service key stored in the machine's default store. This facility is provided to assist with operation on multi homed machines. The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes Specifies the key types that will be accepted for hostbased authentication as a list of comma-separated patterns. Alternately if the specified value begins with a .Sq + character, then the specified key types will be appended to the default set instead of replacing them. If the specified value begins with a .Sq - character, then the specified key types (including wildcards) will be removed from the default set instead of replacing them. The default for this option is: .Bd -literal -offset 3n ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com, rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521, ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa .Ed .Pp The list of available key types may also be obtained using .Qq ssh -Q key . .It Cm HostbasedAuthentication Specifies whether rhosts or /etc/hosts.equiv authentication together with successful public key client host authentication is allowed (host-based authentication). The default is .Cm no . .It Cm HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly Specifies whether or not the server will attempt to perform a reverse name lookup when matching the name in the .Pa ~/.shosts , .Pa ~/.rhosts , and .Pa /etc/hosts.equiv files during .Cm HostbasedAuthentication . A setting of .Cm yes means that .Xr sshd 8 uses the name supplied by the client rather than attempting to resolve the name from the TCP connection itself. The default is .Cm no . .It Cm HostCertificate Specifies a file containing a public host certificate. The certificate's public key must match a private host key already specified by .Cm HostKey . The default behaviour of .Xr sshd 8 is not to load any certificates. .It Cm HostKey Specifies a file containing a private host key used by SSH. The defaults are .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key , .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key and .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key . .Pp Note that .Xr sshd 8 will refuse to use a file if it is group/world-accessible and that the .Cm HostKeyAlgorithms option restricts which of the keys are actually used by .Xr sshd 8 . .Pp It is possible to have multiple host key files. It is also possible to specify public host key files instead. In this case operations on the private key will be delegated to an .Xr ssh-agent 1 . .It Cm HostKeyAgent Identifies the UNIX-domain socket used to communicate with an agent that has access to the private host keys. If the string .Qq SSH_AUTH_SOCK is specified, the location of the socket will be read from the .Ev SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable. .It Cm HostKeyAlgorithms Specifies the host key algorithms that the server offers. The default for this option is: .Bd -literal -offset 3n ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com, rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521, ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa .Ed .Pp The list of available key types may also be obtained using .Qq ssh -Q key . .It Cm IgnoreRhosts Specifies that .Pa .rhosts and .Pa .shosts files will not be used in .Cm HostbasedAuthentication . .Pp .Pa /etc/hosts.equiv and .Pa /etc/ssh/shosts.equiv are still used. The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm IgnoreUserKnownHosts Specifies whether .Xr sshd 8 should ignore the user's .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts during .Cm HostbasedAuthentication and use only the system-wide known hosts file .Pa /etc/ssh/known_hosts . The default is .Cm no . .It Cm IPQoS Specifies the IPv4 type-of-service or DSCP class for the connection. Accepted values are .Cm af11 , .Cm af12 , .Cm af13 , .Cm af21 , .Cm af22 , .Cm af23 , .Cm af31 , .Cm af32 , .Cm af33 , .Cm af41 , .Cm af42 , .Cm af43 , .Cm cs0 , .Cm cs1 , .Cm cs2 , .Cm cs3 , .Cm cs4 , .Cm cs5 , .Cm cs6 , .Cm cs7 , .Cm ef , .Cm lowdelay , .Cm throughput , .Cm reliability , a numeric value, or .Cm none to use the operating system default. This option may take one or two arguments, separated by whitespace. If one argument is specified, it is used as the packet class unconditionally. If two values are specified, the first is automatically selected for interactive sessions and the second for non-interactive sessions. The default is .Cm af21 (Low-Latency Data) for interactive sessions and .Cm cs1 (Lower Effort) for non-interactive sessions. .It Cm KbdInteractiveAuthentication Specifies whether to allow keyboard-interactive authentication. The argument to this keyword must be .Cm yes or .Cm no . The default is to use whatever value .Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication is set to (by default .Cm yes ) . .It Cm KerberosAuthentication Specifies whether the password provided by the user for .Cm PasswordAuthentication will be validated through the Kerberos KDC. To use this option, the server needs a Kerberos servtab which allows the verification of the KDC's identity. The default is .Cm no . .It Cm KerberosGetAFSToken If AFS is active and the user has a Kerberos 5 TGT, attempt to acquire an AFS token before accessing the user's home directory. The default is .Cm no . .It Cm KerberosOrLocalPasswd If password authentication through Kerberos fails then the password will be validated via any additional local mechanism such as .Pa /etc/passwd . The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm KerberosTicketCleanup Specifies whether to automatically destroy the user's ticket cache file on logout. The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm KexAlgorithms Specifies the available KEX (Key Exchange) algorithms. Multiple algorithms must be comma-separated. Alternately if the specified value begins with a .Sq + character, then the specified methods will be appended to the default set instead of replacing them. If the specified value begins with a .Sq - character, then the specified methods (including wildcards) will be removed from the default set instead of replacing them. The supported algorithms are: .Pp .Bl -item -compact -offset indent .It curve25519-sha256 .It curve25519-sha256@libssh.org .It diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 .It diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 .It diffie-hellman-group14-sha256 .It diffie-hellman-group16-sha512 .It diffie-hellman-group18-sha512 .It diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 .It diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 .It ecdh-sha2-nistp256 .It ecdh-sha2-nistp384 .It ecdh-sha2-nistp521 .El .Pp The default is: .Bd -literal -offset indent curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org, ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256, diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512, diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 .Ed .Pp The list of available key exchange algorithms may also be obtained using .Qq ssh -Q kex . .It Cm ListenAddress Specifies the local addresses .Xr sshd 8 should listen on. The following forms may be used: .Pp .Bl -item -offset indent -compact .It .Cm ListenAddress .Sm off .Ar hostname | address .Sm on .Op Cm rdomain Ar domain .It .Cm ListenAddress .Sm off .Ar hostname : port .Sm on .Op Cm rdomain Ar domain .It .Cm ListenAddress .Sm off .Ar IPv4_address : port .Sm on .Op Cm rdomain Ar domain .It .Cm ListenAddress .Sm off .Oo Ar hostname | address Oc : Ar port .Sm on .Op Cm rdomain Ar domain .El .Pp The optional .Cm rdomain qualifier requests .Xr sshd 8 listen in an explicit routing domain. If .Ar port is not specified, sshd will listen on the address and all .Cm Port options specified. The default is to listen on all local addresses on the current default routing domain. Multiple .Cm ListenAddress options are permitted. For more information on routing domains, see .Xr rdomain 4 . .It Cm LoginGraceTime The server disconnects after this time if the user has not successfully logged in. If the value is 0, there is no time limit. The default is 120 seconds. .It Cm LogLevel Gives the verbosity level that is used when logging messages from .Xr sshd 8 . The possible values are: QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1, DEBUG2, and DEBUG3. The default is INFO. DEBUG and DEBUG1 are equivalent. DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of debugging output. Logging with a DEBUG level violates the privacy of users and is not recommended. .It Cm MACs Specifies the available MAC (message authentication code) algorithms. The MAC algorithm is used for data integrity protection. Multiple algorithms must be comma-separated. If the specified value begins with a .Sq + character, then the specified algorithms will be appended to the default set instead of replacing them. If the specified value begins with a .Sq - character, then the specified algorithms (including wildcards) will be removed from the default set instead of replacing them. .Pp The algorithms that contain .Qq -etm calculate the MAC after encryption (encrypt-then-mac). These are considered safer and their use recommended. The supported MACs are: .Pp .Bl -item -compact -offset indent .It hmac-md5 .It hmac-md5-96 .It hmac-sha1 .It hmac-sha1-96 .It hmac-sha2-256 .It hmac-sha2-512 .It umac-64@openssh.com .It umac-128@openssh.com .It hmac-md5-etm@openssh.com .It hmac-md5-96-etm@openssh.com .It hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com .It hmac-sha1-96-etm@openssh.com .It hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com .It hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com .It umac-64-etm@openssh.com .It umac-128-etm@openssh.com .El .Pp The default is: .Bd -literal -offset indent umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com, hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com, hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com, umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com, hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1 .Ed .Pp The list of available MAC algorithms may also be obtained using .Qq ssh -Q mac . .It Cm Match Introduces a conditional block. If all of the criteria on the .Cm Match line are satisfied, the keywords on the following lines override those set in the global section of the config file, until either another .Cm Match line or the end of the file. If a keyword appears in multiple .Cm Match blocks that are satisfied, only the first instance of the keyword is applied. .Pp The arguments to .Cm Match are one or more criteria-pattern pairs or the single token .Cm All which matches all criteria. The available criteria are .Cm User , .Cm Group , .Cm Host , .Cm LocalAddress , .Cm LocalPort , .Cm RDomain , and .Cm Address (with .Cm RDomain representing the .Xr rdomain 4 on which the connection was received.) .Pp The match patterns may consist of single entries or comma-separated lists and may use the wildcard and negation operators described in the .Sx PATTERNS section of .Xr ssh_config 5 . .Pp The patterns in an .Cm Address criteria may additionally contain addresses to match in CIDR address/masklen format, such as 192.0.2.0/24 or 2001:db8::/32. Note that the mask length provided must be consistent with the address - it is an error to specify a mask length that is too long for the address or one with bits set in this host portion of the address. For example, 192.0.2.0/33 and 192.0.2.0/8, respectively. .Pp Only a subset of keywords may be used on the lines following a .Cm Match keyword. Available keywords are .Cm AcceptEnv , .Cm AllowAgentForwarding , .Cm AllowGroups , .Cm AllowStreamLocalForwarding , .Cm AllowTcpForwarding , .Cm AllowUsers , .Cm AuthenticationMethods , .Cm AuthorizedKeysCommand , .Cm AuthorizedKeysCommandUser , .Cm AuthorizedKeysFile , .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand , .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsCommandUser , .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsFile , .Cm Banner , .Cm ChrootDirectory , .Cm ClientAliveCountMax , .Cm ClientAliveInterval , .Cm DenyGroups , .Cm DenyUsers , .Cm ForceCommand , .Cm GatewayPorts , .Cm GSSAPIAuthentication , .Cm HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes , .Cm HostbasedAuthentication , .Cm HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly , .Cm IPQoS , .Cm KbdInteractiveAuthentication , .Cm KerberosAuthentication , .Cm LogLevel , .Cm MaxAuthTries , .Cm MaxSessions , .Cm PasswordAuthentication , .Cm PermitEmptyPasswords , .Cm PermitListen , .Cm PermitOpen , .Cm PermitRootLogin , .Cm PermitTTY , .Cm PermitTunnel , .Cm PermitUserRC , .Cm PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes , .Cm PubkeyAuthentication , .Cm RekeyLimit , .Cm RevokedKeys , .Cm RDomain , .Cm SetEnv , .Cm StreamLocalBindMask , .Cm StreamLocalBindUnlink , .Cm TrustedUserCAKeys , .Cm X11DisplayOffset , .Cm X11Forwarding and .Cm X11UseLocalHost . .It Cm MaxAuthTries Specifies the maximum number of authentication attempts permitted per connection. Once the number of failures reaches half this value, additional failures are logged. The default is 6. .It Cm MaxSessions Specifies the maximum number of open shell, login or subsystem (e.g. sftp) sessions permitted per network connection. Multiple sessions may be established by clients that support connection multiplexing. Setting .Cm MaxSessions to 1 will effectively disable session multiplexing, whereas setting it to 0 will prevent all shell, login and subsystem sessions while still permitting forwarding. The default is 10. .It Cm MaxStartups Specifies the maximum number of concurrent unauthenticated connections to the SSH daemon. Additional connections will be dropped until authentication succeeds or the .Cm LoginGraceTime expires for a connection. The default is 10:30:100. .Pp Alternatively, random early drop can be enabled by specifying the three colon separated values start:rate:full (e.g. "10:30:60"). .Xr sshd 8 will refuse connection attempts with a probability of rate/100 (30%) if there are currently start (10) unauthenticated connections. The probability increases linearly and all connection attempts are refused if the number of unauthenticated connections reaches full (60). .It Cm PasswordAuthentication Specifies whether password authentication is allowed. See also .Cm UsePAM . The default is .Cm no . .It Cm PermitEmptyPasswords When password authentication is allowed, it specifies whether the server allows login to accounts with empty password strings. The default is .Cm no . .It Cm PermitListen Specifies the addresses/ports on which a remote TCP port forwarding may listen. The listen specification must be one of the following forms: .Pp .Bl -item -offset indent -compact .It .Cm PermitListen .Sm off .Ar port .Sm on .It .Cm PermitListen .Sm off .Ar host : port .Sm on .El .Pp Multiple permissions may be specified by separating them with whitespace. An argument of .Cm any can be used to remove all restrictions and permit any listen requests. An argument of .Cm none can be used to prohibit all listen requests. The host name may contain wildcards as described in the PATTERNS section in .Xr ssh_config 5 . The wildcard .Sq * can also be used in place of a port number to allow all ports. By default all port forwarding listen requests are permitted. Note that the .Cm GatewayPorts option may further restrict which addresses may be listened on. Note also that .Xr ssh 1 will request a listen host of .Dq localhost if no listen host was specifically requested, and this this name is treated differently to explicit localhost addresses of .Dq 127.0.0.1 and .Dq ::1 . .It Cm PermitOpen Specifies the destinations to which TCP port forwarding is permitted. The forwarding specification must be one of the following forms: .Pp .Bl -item -offset indent -compact .It .Cm PermitOpen .Sm off .Ar host : port .Sm on .It .Cm PermitOpen .Sm off .Ar IPv4_addr : port .Sm on .It .Cm PermitOpen .Sm off .Ar \&[ IPv6_addr \&] : port .Sm on .El .Pp Multiple forwards may be specified by separating them with whitespace. An argument of .Cm any can be used to remove all restrictions and permit any forwarding requests. An argument of .Cm none can be used to prohibit all forwarding requests. The wildcard .Sq * can be used for host or port to allow all hosts or ports, respectively. By default all port forwarding requests are permitted. .It Cm PermitRootLogin Specifies whether root can log in using .Xr ssh 1 . The argument must be .Cm yes , .Cm prohibit-password , .Cm forced-commands-only , or .Cm no . The default is .Cm no . Note that if .Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication and .Cm UsePAM are both .Cm yes , this setting may be overridden by the PAM policy. .Pp If this option is set to .Cm prohibit-password (or its deprecated alias, .Cm without-password ) , password and keyboard-interactive authentication are disabled for root. .Pp If this option is set to .Cm forced-commands-only , root login with public key authentication will be allowed, but only if the .Ar command option has been specified (which may be useful for taking remote backups even if root login is normally not allowed). All other authentication methods are disabled for root. .Pp If this option is set to .Cm no , root is not allowed to log in. .It Cm PermitTTY Specifies whether .Xr pty 4 allocation is permitted. The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm PermitTunnel Specifies whether .Xr tun 4 device forwarding is allowed. The argument must be .Cm yes , .Cm point-to-point (layer 3), .Cm ethernet (layer 2), or .Cm no . Specifying .Cm yes permits both .Cm point-to-point and .Cm ethernet . The default is .Cm no . .Pp Independent of this setting, the permissions of the selected .Xr tun 4 device must allow access to the user. .It Cm PermitUserEnvironment Specifies whether .Pa ~/.ssh/environment and .Cm environment= options in .Pa ~/.ssh/authorized_keys are processed by .Xr sshd 8 . Valid options are .Cm yes , .Cm no or a pattern-list specifying which environment variable names to accept (for example .Qq LANG,LC_* ) . The default is .Cm no . Enabling environment processing may enable users to bypass access restrictions in some configurations using mechanisms such as .Ev LD_PRELOAD . .It Cm PermitUserRC Specifies whether any .Pa ~/.ssh/rc file is executed. The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm PidFile Specifies the file that contains the process ID of the SSH daemon, or .Cm none to not write one. The default is .Pa /var/run/sshd.pid . .It Cm Port Specifies the port number that .Xr sshd 8 listens on. The default is 22. Multiple options of this type are permitted. See also .Cm ListenAddress . .It Cm PrintLastLog Specifies whether .Xr sshd 8 should print the date and time of the last user login when a user logs in interactively. The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm PrintMotd Specifies whether .Xr sshd 8 should print .Pa /etc/motd when a user logs in interactively. (On some systems it is also printed by the shell, .Pa /etc/profile , or equivalent.) The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes Specifies the key types that will be accepted for public key authentication as a list of comma-separated patterns. Alternately if the specified value begins with a .Sq + character, then the specified key types will be appended to the default set instead of replacing them. If the specified value begins with a .Sq - character, then the specified key types (including wildcards) will be removed from the default set instead of replacing them. The default for this option is: .Bd -literal -offset 3n ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com, rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com, ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com, ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521, ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa .Ed .Pp The list of available key types may also be obtained using .Qq ssh -Q key . .It Cm PubkeyAuthentication Specifies whether public key authentication is allowed. The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm RekeyLimit Specifies the maximum amount of data that may be transmitted before the session key is renegotiated, optionally followed a maximum amount of time that may pass before the session key is renegotiated. The first argument is specified in bytes and may have a suffix of .Sq K , .Sq M , or .Sq G to indicate Kilobytes, Megabytes, or Gigabytes, respectively. The default is between .Sq 1G and .Sq 4G , depending on the cipher. The optional second value is specified in seconds and may use any of the units documented in the .Sx TIME FORMATS section. The default value for .Cm RekeyLimit is .Cm default none , which means that rekeying is performed after the cipher's default amount of data has been sent or received and no time based rekeying is done. .It Cm RevokedKeys Specifies revoked public keys file, or .Cm none to not use one. Keys listed in this file will be refused for public key authentication. Note that if this file is not readable, then public key authentication will be refused for all users. Keys may be specified as a text file, listing one public key per line, or as an OpenSSH Key Revocation List (KRL) as generated by .Xr ssh-keygen 1 . For more information on KRLs, see the KEY REVOCATION LISTS section in .Xr ssh-keygen 1 . .It Cm RDomain Specifies an explicit routing domain that is applied after authentication has completed. The user session, as well and any forwarded or listening IP sockets, will be bound to this .Xr rdomain 4 . If the routing domain is set to .Cm \&%D , then the domain in which the incoming connection was received will be applied. .It Cm SetEnv Specifies one or more environment variables to set in child sessions started by .Xr sshd 8 as .Dq NAME=VALUE . The environment value may be quoted (e.g. if it contains whitespace characters). Environment variables set by .Cm SetEnv override the default environment and any variables specified by the user via .Cm AcceptEnv or .Cm PermitUserEnvironment . .It Cm StreamLocalBindMask Sets the octal file creation mode mask .Pq umask used when creating a Unix-domain socket file for local or remote port forwarding. This option is only used for port forwarding to a Unix-domain socket file. .Pp The default value is 0177, which creates a Unix-domain socket file that is readable and writable only by the owner. Note that not all operating systems honor the file mode on Unix-domain socket files. .It Cm StreamLocalBindUnlink Specifies whether to remove an existing Unix-domain socket file for local or remote port forwarding before creating a new one. If the socket file already exists and .Cm StreamLocalBindUnlink is not enabled, .Nm sshd will be unable to forward the port to the Unix-domain socket file. This option is only used for port forwarding to a Unix-domain socket file. .Pp The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no . The default is .Cm no . .It Cm StrictModes Specifies whether .Xr sshd 8 should check file modes and ownership of the user's files and home directory before accepting login. This is normally desirable because novices sometimes accidentally leave their directory or files world-writable. The default is .Cm yes . Note that this does not apply to .Cm ChrootDirectory , whose permissions and ownership are checked unconditionally. .It Cm Subsystem Configures an external subsystem (e.g. file transfer daemon). Arguments should be a subsystem name and a command (with optional arguments) to execute upon subsystem request. .Pp The command .Cm sftp-server implements the SFTP file transfer subsystem. .Pp Alternately the name .Cm internal-sftp implements an in-process SFTP server. This may simplify configurations using .Cm ChrootDirectory to force a different filesystem root on clients. .Pp By default no subsystems are defined. .It Cm SyslogFacility Gives the facility code that is used when logging messages from .Xr sshd 8 . The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH, LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2, LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7. The default is AUTH. .It Cm TCPKeepAlive Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages to the other side. If they are sent, death of the connection or crash of one of the machines will be properly noticed. However, this means that connections will die if the route is down temporarily, and some people find it annoying. On the other hand, if TCP keepalives are not sent, sessions may hang indefinitely on the server, leaving .Qq ghost users and consuming server resources. .Pp The default is .Cm yes (to send TCP keepalive messages), and the server will notice if the network goes down or the client host crashes. This avoids infinitely hanging sessions. .Pp To disable TCP keepalive messages, the value should be set to .Cm no . .It Cm TrustedUserCAKeys Specifies a file containing public keys of certificate authorities that are trusted to sign user certificates for authentication, or .Cm none to not use one. Keys are listed one per line; empty lines and comments starting with .Ql # are allowed. If a certificate is presented for authentication and has its signing CA key listed in this file, then it may be used for authentication for any user listed in the certificate's principals list. Note that certificates that lack a list of principals will not be permitted for authentication using .Cm TrustedUserCAKeys . For more details on certificates, see the CERTIFICATES section in .Xr ssh-keygen 1 . .It Cm UseBlacklist Specifies whether .Xr sshd 8 attempts to send authentication success and failure messages to the .Xr blacklistd 8 daemon. The default is .Cm no . For forward compatibility with an upcoming .Xr blacklistd rename, the .Cm UseBlocklist alias can be used instead. .It Cm UseDNS Specifies whether .Xr sshd 8 should look up the remote host name, and to check that the resolved host name for the remote IP address maps back to the very same IP address. .Pp If this option is set to .Cm no , then only addresses and not host names may be used in .Pa ~/.ssh/authorized_keys .Cm from and .Nm .Cm Match .Cm Host directives. The default is .Dq yes . .It Cm UsePAM Enables the Pluggable Authentication Module interface. If set to .Cm yes this will enable PAM authentication using .Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication and .Cm PasswordAuthentication in addition to PAM account and session module processing for all authentication types. .Pp Because PAM challenge-response authentication usually serves an equivalent role to password authentication, you should disable either .Cm PasswordAuthentication or .Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication. .Pp If .Cm UsePAM is enabled, you will not be able to run .Xr sshd 8 as a non-root user. The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm VersionAddendum Optionally specifies additional text to append to the SSH protocol banner sent by the server upon connection. The default is -.Qq FreeBSD-20180909 . +.Qq FreeBSD-20200214 . The value .Cm none may be used to disable this. .It Cm X11DisplayOffset Specifies the first display number available for .Xr sshd 8 Ns 's X11 forwarding. This prevents sshd from interfering with real X11 servers. The default is 10. .It Cm X11Forwarding Specifies whether X11 forwarding is permitted. The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no . The default is .Cm yes . .Pp When X11 forwarding is enabled, there may be additional exposure to the server and to client displays if the .Xr sshd 8 proxy display is configured to listen on the wildcard address (see .Cm X11UseLocalhost ) , though this is not the default. Additionally, the authentication spoofing and authentication data verification and substitution occur on the client side. The security risk of using X11 forwarding is that the client's X11 display server may be exposed to attack when the SSH client requests forwarding (see the warnings for .Cm ForwardX11 in .Xr ssh_config 5 ) . A system administrator may have a stance in which they want to protect clients that may expose themselves to attack by unwittingly requesting X11 forwarding, which can warrant a .Cm no setting. .Pp Note that disabling X11 forwarding does not prevent users from forwarding X11 traffic, as users can always install their own forwarders. .It Cm X11UseLocalhost Specifies whether .Xr sshd 8 should bind the X11 forwarding server to the loopback address or to the wildcard address. By default, sshd binds the forwarding server to the loopback address and sets the hostname part of the .Ev DISPLAY environment variable to .Cm localhost . This prevents remote hosts from connecting to the proxy display. However, some older X11 clients may not function with this configuration. .Cm X11UseLocalhost may be set to .Cm no to specify that the forwarding server should be bound to the wildcard address. The argument must be .Cm yes or .Cm no . The default is .Cm yes . .It Cm XAuthLocation Specifies the full pathname of the .Xr xauth 1 program, or .Cm none to not use one. The default is .Pa /usr/local/bin/xauth . .El .Sh TIME FORMATS .Xr sshd 8 command-line arguments and configuration file options that specify time may be expressed using a sequence of the form: .Sm off .Ar time Op Ar qualifier , .Sm on where .Ar time is a positive integer value and .Ar qualifier is one of the following: .Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent .It Aq Cm none seconds .It Cm s | Cm S seconds .It Cm m | Cm M minutes .It Cm h | Cm H hours .It Cm d | Cm D days .It Cm w | Cm W weeks .El .Pp Each member of the sequence is added together to calculate the total time value. .Pp Time format examples: .Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent .It 600 600 seconds (10 minutes) .It 10m 10 minutes .It 1h30m 1 hour 30 minutes (90 minutes) .El .Sh TOKENS Arguments to some keywords can make use of tokens, which are expanded at runtime: .Pp .Bl -tag -width XXXX -offset indent -compact .It %% A literal .Sq % . .It \&%D The routing domain in which the incoming connection was received. .It %F The fingerprint of the CA key. .It %f The fingerprint of the key or certificate. .It %h The home directory of the user. .It %i The key ID in the certificate. .It %K The base64-encoded CA key. .It %k The base64-encoded key or certificate for authentication. .It %s The serial number of the certificate. .It \&%T The type of the CA key. .It %t The key or certificate type. .It \&%U The numeric user ID of the target user. .It %u The username. .El .Pp .Cm AuthorizedKeysCommand accepts the tokens %%, %f, %h, %k, %t, %U, and %u. .Pp .Cm AuthorizedKeysFile accepts the tokens %%, %h, %U, and %u. .Pp .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand accepts the tokens %%, %F, %f, %h, %i, %K, %k, %s, %T, %t, %U, and %u. .Pp .Cm AuthorizedPrincipalsFile accepts the tokens %%, %h, %U, and %u. .Pp .Cm ChrootDirectory accepts the tokens %%, %h, %U, and %u. .Pp .Cm RoutingDomain accepts the token %D. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config Contains configuration data for .Xr sshd 8 . This file should be writable by root only, but it is recommended (though not necessary) that it be world-readable. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr sftp-server 8 , .Xr sshd 8 .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by .An Tatu Ylonen . .An Aaron Campbell , Bob Beck , Markus Friedl , Niels Provos , .An Theo de Raadt and .An Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and created OpenSSH. .An Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0. .An Niels Provos and .An Markus Friedl contributed support for privilege separation.